http://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/oct/09/top-boy-teenage-drug-dealers
THIS SITE IS PERFECT.
Ronan Bennett wrote the classic TOP BOY, a somewhat inspiration from my ROADMAN film. Everything is in this column that I can build my characters off. the first paragraph is great.
Nathan is 19. He's mixed race, tall, slim and fit. He has a No 1 haircut
and is dressed in a T-shirt, tracksuit bottoms and trainers. He has a
silver chain round his neck. His mobile rings. He speaks quickly: "Four
on four, cuz, yeah… Wait a second." He asks how much longer we're going
to be. Maybe another 30 minutes. We're sitting at a table outside a café
on Mare Street, next to Hackney Town Hall. I sip my drink. "Thirty
minutes," he says and ends the call. He looks at me, a slow look,
unemphatic. "Customer." What's four on four, I ask. "He wants four
10-bags of dubs and four 10-bags of B." Dubs? B? "Dubs are white drugs –
crack and cocaine. B is brown, obviously, heroin." Nat is a drug
dealer. He never refers to his merchandise as drugs. He calls it food.
Slang. Dress Code, Age, Origin. It's all there. Ronan did a great job in going to and finding real storyes to help write Top Boy.
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